Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Letterman's top ten (was re: UNIX) Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 15:11:50 GMT References: <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com> <11635@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mark@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 15 Nov 90 15:56:11 GMT In article <11635@hubcap.clemson.edu> mark@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mark Smotherman) writes: | 1. A Honeywell mainframe (6000?) with extra bits in the floating-point | accumulator for more precision in intermediate calculations - but | with no way to save these in memory. Thus they will disappear | at random, depending upon interrupts and context switches [1, p. 137]. | (Ever thought of floating-point expression evaluation as being a | critical section in need of interrupt disabling???) One of the early Data General Eclipse's had this 'feature'. My memory says it was the s200, but it may have been an s150 or some such instead. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?